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“Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead to a general disrespect for the rights of the citizen.”-George Orwell

Friday, February 28, 2014

Jason Calvi of EWTN News Nightly pays a visit to the Catholic school founded in 1828 by Mother Mary Lange to serve the educational and spiritual needs of Baltimore's antebellum black community in a time when merely teaching a black person to read was a dangerous act of civil disobedience.

The 9th Circuit decision may thus be a faithful application of Tinker, and it might be that Tinker sets forth the correct constitutional rule here. Schools have special responsibilities to educate their students and to protect them both against violence and against disruption of their educations. A school might thus have the discretion to decide that it will prevent disruption even at the cost of letting thugs suppress speech.

Yet even if the judges are right, the situation in the school seems very bad. Somehow, we've reached the point that students can't safely display the American flag in an American school, because of a fear that other students will attack them for it — and the school feels unable to prevent such attacks (by punishing the threateners and the attackers, and by teaching students tolerance for other students' speech). Something is badly wrong, whether such an incident happens on May 5 or any other day.

And this is especially so because behavior that gets rewarded gets repeated. The school taught its students a simple lesson: If you dislike speech and want it suppressed, then you can get what you want by threatening violence against the speakers. The school will cave in, the speakers will be shut up, and you and your ideology will win. When thuggery pays, the result is more thuggery. Is that the education we want our students to be getting?

Former CPAC Director, Lisa De Pasquale, has released a new book, Finding Mr. Righteous, detailing her long search for love and spiritualism. Her path has taken her from being a "Christian in name only" to dating a Jewish man, an atheist, and eventually discovering more about herself via the journey. This heartwarming message is something that can bring a good message out of a difficult path--a true redemption story. In this interview with Stephen Kruiser, you can tell why Ann Coulter has called her book, "A true Christian story, disguised as racy Chick Lit."

Thursday, February 27, 2014

A collection of Dartmouth students who describe themselves as "Concerned Asian, Black, Latin@, Native, Undocumented, Queer, and Differently-Abled students" have threatened "physical action" if the administrators do not respond to their list of demands. The list of demands is lengthy. Here are some of them:

Incorporate into each department at LEAST one queer studies class.

Commit multi-millions of dollars to increase faculty and staff of color in all departments, and create a "professor of color" lecture series.

Require ALL professors to be trained in "cultural competency" and the "importance of social justice in their day to day work."

Provide gender-neutral housing to all students. Provide gender-specific AND gender-neutral bathrooms in EVERY BUILDING on campus.

Provide free legal assistance and financial aid for undocumented students to "better understand each of their unique legal statuses."

Require that every Dartmouth student be taught and made aware that the land they reside on is Abenaki homeland.

All male-female checkboxes should be replaced with write-in boxes to make forms, surveys, and applications more inclusive for trans, two-spirit, agender, gender-nonconforming and genderqueer folks campus-wide.

The students say that Dartmouth must commit to meeting these demands by March 24, 2014. Otherwise "physical action" will ensue.

I was once part of a group of Dartmouth students that threatened (and engaged in) physical action if the administration did not respond to a demand. The physical action was taking over Parkhurst Hall, the main administration building. The demand was ending ROTC at Dartmouth.

Our demand was probably more pernicious than the entire laundry list presented by the "Concerned Asian, Black, Latin@, Native, Undocumented, Queer, and Differently-Abled students." But at least it had the virtue of being sane.

Jim and Greg discuss yesterday's poll from CBS News showing Americans deeply dissatisfied with President Obama. They also worry about whether Russia's current military moves imply an upcoming attack on Ukraine, and register disgust at Harry Reid's obnoxious and disgraceful comments suggesting Obamacare horror stories are false, and that the Koch brothers are "un-American."

We dealt with Harry Reid's contemptible Obamacare comments yesterday, then followed-up by cataloging the many ways in which his casual "all of them are untrue" smear was offensively false. On Twitter, I vented exasperation at the mainstream media -- which predictably overlooked the remarks -- and at the Republican Party, which seemed incapable of turning Reid's callous attack into a major political headache for Democrats:

Some Senate Republicans did emerge to challenge Reid, but for the most part, the response from both the press and the GOP was...crickets. The muted "outcry" was woefully insufficient to turn this into the shinola-storm that Reid so richly earned; a massive wasted opportunity -- although there's still time to exact some political pain on Reid's party. Hammering home Democrats' imperious, mean-spirited, ideological, out-of-touch stance on healthcare remains the best path forward to displacing Reid as Senate Majority Leader. Fourteen Democrat-held seats are in play this cycle, of which the GOP must net six to win the chamber. The man who stands to take Reid's job at the Senate's helm is Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell. He appeared on The Kelly File last night to draw attention to, and refute, Reid's falsehoods.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has to contend with numerous protests against his regime a day, a miserable and oppressed populace and nightly videos of his national guard assaulting protesters uploaded to social media. He's hoping a carnival will make up for it.

February 27th is a national holiday in Chavista Venezuela, the anniversary of the "Caracazo," a far-left violent uprising against (classically, not American) liberal government in 1989. According to Spanish newspaper ABC, Maduro plans to begin festivities early to distract from the many protests scheduled for the upcoming week, giving Venezuelans the 27th and 28th of February as holidays off in order to provide a six-day weekend (Monday and Tuesday are also national holidays).

Maduro insisted that the opposition "fascists" were out to ruin the holiday "for our children" in a speech this week, in which he claimed the opposition wanted the holidays to be canceled because many mayors have said they are mourning the dead protesters and not participating in celebrations. "The fight here is happiness versus bitterness, hate versus love, violence versus peace, carnival versus fascism," he told the audience. "The carnival is happening all the way!" He also provided a salsa dancing demonstration.

Jim and Greg like that the Democrat running in a tight special House race in Florida said immigration reform was all about making sure we have enough maids and landscapers, dislike the growing likelihood that the U.S. may pull out of Afghanistan entirely this year (which will almost certainly lead to chaos), and discuss the latest CPAC soap opera.

Alex Sink came very close to winning Florida's gubernatorial election in 2010, and is currently locked in a very tight special election battle over Florida's 13th Congressional District. She is a Democrat. At a recent election forum, she offered the following analysis of the urgent need for immigration reform:

"Immigration reform is important in our country. We have a lot of employers over on the beaches that rely upon workers and especially in this high-growth environment, where are you going to get people to work to clean our hotel rooms or do our landscaping? We don't need to put those employers in a position of hiring undocumented and illegal workers."

Well then.

Sink's defenders will say that she was merely acknowledging economic and demographic realities in her district, and that her comments contained no slight -- intended or otherwise -- against Latinos. The problem is that Sink's defenders are precisely the sort of people who would reflexively and immediately crucify her for uttering those exact same sentences if she had an 'R' next to her name. What's more, every Republican in America would be linked to the comment, then badgered by the media to weigh in on it. That was the playbook for Todd Akin (a politician who said something stunningly ignorant) and Ted Nugent (a musician who said something odious and disgraceful). Will the media apply the will-you-denounce? model to national Democrats over Sink's remarks?

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

EWTN News Nightly's Brian Patrick discusses today's news as well as the freedom of conscience bill in Arizona with Kellie Fiedorek of Alliance Defending Freedom. He also talks about the newest cardinals with The Catholic Association's Maureen Ferguson and The Catholic University of America's Dr. Melissa Moschella, and the significance of Black History Month with National Black Pro-Life Union's President Dr. Day Gardner. And don't miss Wyatt Spencer's sit-down interview with Dr. Robert Bentley, the Governor of Alabama, to hear how he leans on his faith.

Now that CNN showed Piers Morgan to an elevator and pointed him north, his abused staffers are coming forward to tell the story of what it was like working for a man who was a legend in his own mind.

You'll be shocked to hear that working with Piers Morgan was almost as much fun as working with Kim Jong Il.

His own co-workers are glad he's getting the boot. Staffers at "Piers Morgan Live" are actually relieved that CNN has canceled the show, sources tell Confidenti@l.

"He was always such an a—— to people working for him," one insider says of the bombastic Brit.

"The makeup girls suffered the worst — he was rude and belligerent," says our source. "The general feeling is Morgan didn't show any respect to anyone working under him — the people who were trying to make him look good."

You can't help but feel sorry for the makeup girls who had to spend two hours a day trying to get his face to match a normal shade.

I bet some of them wished for an assault rifle every time he sat down in the chair.

Morgan was questioned in November in London by cops investigating phone hacking, but a CNN spokeswoman said that interview was not a factor in his show being canned.

"What a moron. Baldwin barely knows anyone at MSNBC, especially those that he bashed in his article," one well-placed insider tells us. "Maybe it was a homework assignment from his anger-management class. I guess they don't call him the Bloviator for nothing."

Jim and Greg love the way several key Senate races are trending, dislike the government's own report that two-thirds of small business employees will be facing higher health-care premiums thanks to Obamacare, rip the push for mandatory parenting classes in New York, and salute the late Harold Ramis.

Sen. Kay Hagan (D-NC) is an extremely busy woman -- far too busy, in fact, to offer a coherent answer to a relevant question about her role in passing Obamacare. She voted for the law in 2009 and 2010, then joined all of her Democratic colleagues to defeat a Republican attempt to revise its grandfathering guidelines in such a away that would have preserved the president's since-obliterated "keep your plan" pledge. At a press event yesterday, reporters wanted to know why Sen. Hagan has feigned shock and outrage over millions of Americans losing their preferred plans. Why did she vote against a plan to preserve the promise? When did she "discover" that "keep your plan" was a fiction? Hagan wasn't interested in answering those questions...

A Gallup poll released February 24th shows that a majority of Americans do not believe Obama is respected on the world stage.

According to Gallup, 53 percent of respondents said "leaders of other countries around the world" do not respect Barack Obama. This is a 33 percent increase over the number of respondents who thought he was not respected in 2009.

On the other hand, only 41 percent of respondents believe "leaders of other countries around the world" do respect Barack Obama. This is a 26 percent decrease in the number who saw Obama as respected in 2009.

Among Democratic respondents, 69 percent believed Obama was respected on the world stage. The number was 49 percent among Independents and 21 percent among Republicans.

Regarding disrespect, 28 percent of Democrats believe "leaders of other countries around the world" do not respect Barack Obama while 57 percent of Independents and 77 percent of Republicans believed the same.

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